FOR the first time in 30 years, voters in the lower Hudson Valley -- an area that is both rural and suburban -- elected a Democrat to represent them in Congress. John Hall, the singer-turned-environmentalist-turned-activist, ousted Sue Kelly,...

Control of the Senate depends on one narrow race that has kept the political spotlight and the nation's attention on the region. Alabama As much of the nation turned toward the Democrats, Alabama continued a long-term trend of Southern...

It was a bizarre moment in the race for the 19th Congressional District in New York City’s northern suburbs: Representative Sue Kelly, a Republican, being filmed as she ran away from a local television crew attempting to question her about the Mark...

DEMOCRATIC candidates nationwide are riding an anti-Bush wave this election, using discontent over the war in Iraq to try to unseat longtime Republican incumbents. In the Congressional race in the 19th District -- which encompasses parts of...

To the Editor: Your May 28 article ''In a Vulnerable Year for Republicans, Just How Vulnerable Is Sue Kelly?,'' about New York's 19th Congressional District, notes that Representative Sue W. Kelly ''has spent more than a decade carefully crafting...

June 25, 2006, Sunday

To the Editor: As you noted in ''In a Vulnerable Year for Republicans, Just How Vulnerable Is Sue Kelly?'' (May 28), Representative Sue W. Kelly has amassed more than $1 million for her house race in November, compared with just over $429,000 for...